June 24, 2013, Issue 351
Highway Patrol: SiriusXM Breakouts
Despite what you’ve heard from Tim McGraw, the
highway does care – at least if you’re talking about
SiriusXM’s The Highway. Specifically,
the channel and the people behind it
care about breaking new artists and
music, and they’re happy to go it alone
if need be. Before Florida Georgia
Line ever put a pen to record-labelpaper, The Highway’s “Highway
Finds” feature helped drive 100,000Steve Blatter
plus downloads of “Cruise.” And,
according to the satcaster, a relative unknown named
Cole Swindell may soon follow in the duo’s footsteps.
So just what is it that SiriusXM has hit on? And is there
anything Country radio can learn from it? Country
Aircheck took a ride down The Highway to find out.
First and foremost, the station’s success with previously
unknown artists is no accident. “One of the things that
we feel very strongly about is our ability to discover new
artists and bring them to our 24.4 million subscribers,”
says SiriusXM SVP/GM Music Programming Steve Blatter.
“Whether it’s with ‘Highway Finds’ on The Highway or
[similar features] on our other formats, we identify them in a
very strategic way and expose them in a meaningful manner.
We know that our subscribers crave new music discovery and
‘Highway Finds’ are a way to satiate [their appetite].”
“’Highway Find’ is a category in and of itself,”
explains SiriusXM Sr. Dir./Country Programming John
(continued on page 9)
Go Weston, Young Man: HitShop’s Weston Burt drops in on
the CRS board and agenda committee meetings in Nashville
Thursday (6/20). Pictured (l-r) are outgoing CRB/CRS President
and Streamsound’s Mike Culotta, Albright & O’Malley & Brenner’s
Becky Brenner, Burt, HitShop’s Skip Bishop and CRS’ Bill Mayne.
CMA Music Festival In Review
Country Aircheck recently spoke with CMA SVP/
Marketing & Communications Sheri
Warnke for an assessment of this year’s
event and how its lessons will be applied
going forward.
CA: We know about the
attendance numbers and the
opening of Fan Fair X at the Music
City Center. What are some of this
Sheri Warnke
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year’s other successes that might be less obvious?
SW: The crowds were big, but they were big to the
very last show at Riverfront. Downtown streets were packed
through the end of the day Sunday, and usually we see
people start to thin out. That actually made it a little tougher
as we tried to load-out; people were just hanging on.
There were crowds everywhere that people may
not have seen. We had a high level of engagement
with HGTV, the Transitions area, Chevrolet and AT&T’s
karaoke stage. We had a lot of new partners and great
content on the Close Up Stage in the Music City Center.
We were able to bring in a lot more heritage artists –
artists at different levels in their careers – and we got a
lot of positive feedback from fans about that.
What unexpected challenges or difficulties
were there?
I’m not sure there were many things we didn’t
expect; we were prepared for a lot. We weren’t sure
about the new Music City Center, especially taking over
every exhibit hall, but it was flawless. I’m not saying
there weren’t problems across the event, but they were
generally things the consumer wouldn’t see. We didn’t
hear a lot of complaints.
Weather altered the course of a few things,
particularly Sunday night’s LP Field show. How
are those calls made?
Safety drives all those decisions, first and foremost.
And it’s not just CMA. We make those decisions in
conjunction with the Office of Emergency Management,
Metro Police, LP Field, the Titans organization, the TV
production and our live events team at CMA. When
radar and the information the OEM has is saying big
storms are coming in, safety
becomes the first priority.
Lenny Kravitz’s LP Field
performance didn’t go
over well with the crowd.
Shouldn’t Jason Aldean
have done a full set with
Lenny joining for a few
songs, rather than the
other way around?
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PA G E T H R E E P I C
Starchy Dudes: Broken Bow artist Craig Morgan (l)
rocks the heavy starch for KJUG/Visalia, CA’s Dave
Daniels in this early 2000s photo. Or was it the early
‘90s? Guess we’d have to see the boots. Got starch?
Tight jeans? A mullet or two? Send your vintage pics to
pagethreepic@countryaircheck.com.
Storme Warren summed it up when he came
onstage after, I thought. “This is, after all, Music City.”
Part of what we’re doing all four nights is having
surprises, and that’s why Lenny was there. You can find
fans who were blown away, and fans who wondered
why he was there. Comments on our social media
and at our information booth were split about 50-50.
And even if Jason had been the only performer of the
whole night, fans still wouldn’t be satisfied. He’s so hot
right now, they can’t get enough of him. The decision
to have Lenny on is part of what makes the festival
what it is. We hear back on research that fans love the
collaborations, and that was just a different one.
It doesn’t seem like Lenny’s appearance was the
issue, as much as the execution of that appearance,
but I understand it’s a sensitive issue.
It is.
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As you walked around last week, what
mental notes were you making about ways to
improve or develop things further next year?
We’ll have wrap meetings in the next couple of
weeks, but one of the things I’ve noticed is that we
want to reach out to the community even more from a
volunteer standpoint. The Houston Rodeo, New Orleans
Jazzfest and Calgary Stampede attract a lot of local
volunteers, and we want to build our event so that
even more people from the community feel invested.
So outreach and getting people involved is one area.
We’ve had good success, but we’d like to build on that.
We’re also going to evaluate the parade. We want
to look at whether Wednesday is the right day to do
it, and if we want to keep doing it. We’ve had a lot
of success with international artists and fans – 27
countries were represented this year, but we want to
see if we can do international better and expand our
global artist showcase. And we didn’t even use all of the
Music City Center, just the exhibit halls. There are more
opportunities to bring things in there, so we want to
explore what else we can do in that building.
Final thoughts?
We had more artists than ever performing and
appearing, and I think the highest caliber of artists we’ve
ever had on every stage. This event would not be as
successful as it is if the artist community didn’t embrace it
the way they do. We got a lot of good feedback from them
and we can’t thank them enough for what they do to give
back to the fans. That’s what this is all about. –Chuck Aly
Chart Chat
Congrats to Jake Owen, Keith
Gale, Josh Easler and the entire
RCA promotion team on scoring this
week’s No. 1 single with Owen’s
“Anywhere With You.” The song is his
fourth consecutive chart-topper from
Barefoot Blue Jean Night, joining the
title track, “Alone With You” and “The
One That Got Away.”
Jake Owen
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MY TUNES: MUSIC THAT SHAPED MY LIFE
KBUL/Reno PD Derek Gunn discusses
his most influential artists, songs, albums
and concerts:
1. Jason Michael Carroll/ Livin’ Our
Love Song: The first time I heard it, loved
it. When I met my wife at a festival we do
every year in Yerington, NV, I found out she,
too, loved Jason. A year from that, we had
booked Jason again and I had it all worked
Derek Gunn
out with his manager for me to be able to
ask her to marry me onstage during his
set. Long story short, the onstage proposal didn’t happen, but
she said yes anyway and it became our wedding song.
2. Alabama/40 Hour Week: I was sitting in my parent’s
house after school one day listening to KUPL/Portland. This
came on and from the first listen, it had me. I had to have
it. As soon as it was over, I ran down to the store, found the
CD and bought it.
3. Luke Bryan/I Don’t Want This Night to End: Luke came
to Reno last year and my five-year-old daughter loves him. I
promised her I’d take her to meet him.
4. Joe Diffie/Third Rock From The Sun: As Jason
Aldean says, it was “1994” and I had front row seats to see
Joe in concert. The song was huge and when the lights went
out, the computer voice started: “Welcome To Earth ... “ the
crowd went nuts.
5. Chris Cagle/I Breathe In, I Breathe Out: I was three
weeks into my job as PD here and we had Chris in for an
acoustic “eat-and-greet” show. Halfway through his set, he
told the story behind the song before he played it. Yeah, we
were using our duct-taped radio station PA system with our
car lot remote speakers, but it was at that moment I fell in
love with an acoustic show. There’s something about just a
singer and their guitar that blows you away.
• A highly regarded song or album you’ve never
heard: The O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack.
• An “important” piece of music you just don’t get:
Michael Bublé. I get it, girls love him, I’m just not a girl.
• An album you played or listened to incessantly: Jason
Michael Carroll’s “Growing Up Is Getting Old”
• One obscure or non-country song everyone should
listen to right now: “Play Hard” by David Guetta featuring
Ne-Yo and Akon.
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News & Notes
Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs will release his
autobiography Kentucky Traveler Aug. 13.
The book is available for pre-order here.
John Oates and Jon Wolfe will
perform at WMN’s Pickin’ On The Patio
June 27. The event will be sponsored
by Ajax Turner, Budweiser and more.
The Week’s Top Stories
Full coverage at countryaircheck.com.
• WYBL/Ashtabula, OH PD/
afternoon host Roger McCoy was
tapped as APD/MD/afternoons on
WKSF/Asheville, NC. (6/24)
• Production for ABC-TV’s Nashville
will indeed return to Nashville next
season. (6/21).
• WMAD/Madison afternoon host
Roger McCoy
Tracy Dixon left for mornings on
KYGO/Denver. (6/21)
• Television research pro Justin Wyatt joined CMT as
VP/Primary Research. (6/20)
• Cumulus’ WNSH/New York debuted America’s
Morning Show from Nashville. (6/19)
• Beasley/Las Vegas OM Justin Chase was
promoted to VP/Programming for the company. (6/19)
• Award-winning music journalist and CMT Dir./
Editorial Chet Flippo passed away. (6/19)
• KFDI/Wichita Dir./Imaging/afternoon host Tony
Brueski landed a job as judge and co-host on the
Travel Channel’s Destination Showdown. (6/18)
Highway Patrol: SiriusXM Breakouts
(continued from page 1)
Marks. “It’s five songs deep and each gets about 38
spins per week. That enables us to play them enough
to be heard and to [gather] research in a short amount
of time.” On air, Marks says each “Highway Find” is
identified as such and the audience is encouraged
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OFF THE RECORD: Kree Harrison
American Idol’s Kree Harrison puts
an industry spin on the artist interview:
I grew up listening to KTHT
(Country Legends )/Houston. They’d
play everything from Patsy Cline to
Conway Twitty. Most of the time when
listening, I’m on my grandma’s front
porch drinking coffee with her and it
just kind of relaxes me.
Kree Harrison Since the show ended I haven’t done
anything except sleep and talk about myself.
The American Idol family works their butts off all
season long to constantly find good songs. The further it gets
in, the more in-tune they are with each contestant.
It’s hard to choose a song that you would want to sing
every night on tour for the rest of your life, but I didn’t even
have to think about “All Cried Out.” Lyrically, melodically, it
was 100% me. I wish I would’ve written it, but I’m so happy
to do a song by Katrina Elam, Gordie Sampson, and Steve
McEwan. I have so much respect for those songwriters.
It feels weird to say that I’ve done American Idol. I definitely
had a different mentality about it before I went in. I thought,
“I’m never going to do a talent show.” But my sister told me I
should try out and I realized the show really gives artists, not
just singers, but artists the platform to kick-start their career.
And that’s an amazing thing.
I can’t even explain how much of an impact The Judds
were on my life. My mom, my sister and I were like ... it’s
us – The Judds. I was at dinner the other night and Wynonna
was at a table nearby. I was star-struck. She came up and
introduced herself because she had heard I was such a huge
fan. And now we text each other.
When I’m on tour I want only blue M&M’s in my dressing
room. I’m totally kidding. I’m pretty easy, not really that hard
to please. I’d like to consider myself cool in any environment.
The best advice came from when we got to meet Smokey
Robinson on the show. He told us, “No matter how high in the
clouds your head is, always keep your feet on the ground.”
to provide feedback via the channel’s social media
platforms. That information and national SoundScan data
are used to gauge early response; Marks pays particular
attention to the sales numbers. “I trend every song on a
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weekly basis,” he says. “I run tracking numbers from the
minute we start hitting it on the air until it either goes out
of our system or continues on. It’s a strong part of how we
evaluate the fitness of the songs.”
Marks says two weeks or less tells him whether a
song is going to “ring the bell” from a sales perspective,
but “no song is in there for less than 150 spins. From
there we compare our internal research with the sales
data and make a determination as to whether or not
it continues in regular rotation or if
it’s discontinued. The things that I find
[work best] are songs that stretch the
boundary of what would be described
as mainstream country music today.”
Lately, Marks says that
description applies to a South Georgia
John Marks native named Cole Swindell. Swindell
is a former frat brother and merch
guy for Luke Bryan and, since 2010, a songwriter for
Sony/ATV (Scotty McCreery, “Water Tower Town”). He’s
among a handful of artists generating impressive sales
strictly off airplay on The Highway. In the seven weeks
since “Chillin’ It” was dubbed a “Highway Find,” Marks
says sales of the single have gone from just more than
800 per week to more than 13,600.
Stories like that have certainly been raising the
satcaster’s profile within the music industry. “The
activity between record labels and SiriusXM has
definitely increased over the last few years,” notes
Blatter. “And we’re not hearing just from the promotion
and marketing people, but from A&R staffs and artist
managers. We regularly get calls inquiring about music
on SiriusXM that they’re not hearing anywhere else.”
John Alexander manages Sarah
Darling and lauds the program for
“giving a jumpstart to artists that
terrestrial radio may not get behind
for whatever reason. [The Highway]
started spinning ‘Home To Me,’ her
last single on Black River, around the
July 4 last year with a good head start
John Alexander
on everyone else. When the first week
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Reba’s induction of WSM announcer Ralph
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Former contestant on season two of The
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July 9
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July 16 Joey + Rory Inspired Songs of Faith and Family
(Gaither)
July 23 Pam Tillis & Lorrie Morgan Grits and Glamour
(Red River)
July 30 Vince Gill & Paul Franklin Bakersfield (MCA)
Aug. 6
Brett Eldredge Bring You Back (Atlantic)
Aug. 13 Luke Bryan TBD (Capitol)
Aug. 20 Charlie Worsham Rubberband (Warner Bros./W.A.R.)
Aug. 27 Sundy Best Door Without A Screen (Deluxe) (eOne)
Sept. 3 Sandra Boyton Frog Trouble (WMN)
Sept. 10 Keith Urban Fuse (Capitol)
Sheryl Crow Feels Like Home (Warner Bros./WMN)
Sept. 17 Chris Young A.M. (RCA)
Billy Currington We Are Tonight (Mercury)
Justin Moore Off The Beaten Path (Valory)
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of sales came out after eight weeks of airplay, she’d
sold more than 8,000 downloads.
[SiriusXM] was instrumental in that.”
After Darling’s departure from Black
River, The Highway also added
Darling’s “Little Umbrellas.” Without
the backing of a major label, the single
still sold almost 5,000 copies in its first
two weeks.
Chris Loss
SiriusXM’s role in breaking new
artists and music is just as important to Stoney Creek VP/
Promotion Chris Loss. “For us The Highway has always
been a priority because we identified it very early on
and wanted to be a part of what they were doing,” he
says. “They championed Parmalee with ‘Musta Had A
Good Time’ and they were an integral part of launching
‘Carolina’ as we took it to FM radio.” (CA’s Chuck Aly was
along for January’s one-day, three city Carolina CoastTo-Coast Tour that incorporated a big push by SiriusXM;
read here.) Both singles reached No. 1 on SiriusXM The
Highway’s Hot 30 Live countdown, and “Carolina” is
hovering around 7,000 downloads per week according
to Nielsen SoundScan. SiriusXM remains the overall
spin leader. “What [The Highway] is doing is viable and
produces results,” Loss says.
Though reluctant to compare the very different
satellite and terrestrial decision making processes,
Marks is curious to see sluggish support for artists
showing proven success. “One of the things I encourage
some labels to do is to allow us to step out on a song
to help them determine whether or not they want to
bring it to a larger market, and some have taken us
up on that,” he says. “We showed tremendous sales
and research on Parmalee. They are a star artist with
two hits – in my opinion and objectively from the data
– but for some reason terrestrial has been slow to
pick up on them. The metrics today with PPM create a
whole different dynamic in the way music choices are
made, though. That’s really the thing that differentiates
terrestrial and satellite. We don’t have to worry about
that. Our metric is subscriber satisfaction.”
The difference in business models and the effects
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of PPM aside, is there something that makes the
SiriusXM audience more receptive to new music than
terrestrial’s? “Many people who subscribe to SiriusXM
are music lovers, and they tune to our channels to hear
new music that they can’t hear elsewhere,” Marks says.
“It’s a combination of not only being able to play the
hits, but being able to provide meaningful exposure to
new and unsigned artists that doesn’t happen otherwise.
The fun part for me is being able to find new music
that will resonate with listeners and shake some of the
foundation of what country music is today.”
–Russ Penuell
CAC
Lift Off: Sea Gayle/Arista’s Jerrod Niemann and singersongwriter Lance Miller drop by the ACM Lifting Lives Music
Camp in Nashville this week where they led camp participants
in a songwriting session that produced “Living On Island Time”
based on the campers’ personal experiences. The camp is a
partnership between ACM Lifting Lives and the Vanderbilt
Kennedy Center For Excellence In Developmental Disabilities.
Pictured (l-r) are Miller, ACM Lifting Lives’ Hannah Martin,
Niemann, the ACM’s Tiffany Moon, the Kennedy Center’s Dr.
Elisabeth Dykens and Vanderbilt University’s Rondal Richardson.
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Chart Page 1
LW
TW
Artist/Title (Label)
Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS
2
1
JAKE OWEN/Anywhere With You (RCA) 4
22208
1750
7023
489
52.279
3.328
141
0
4
2
BRAD PAISLEY/Beat This Summer (Arista)
21102
1200
6706
304
50.297
2.996
141
0
3
3
LUKE BRYAN/Crash My Party (Capitol) 4
20984
947
6625
298
50.301
1.88
141
0
1
4
BLAKE SHELTON/Boys 'Round Here (Warner Bros./WMN)
20766
-1456
6531
-508 49.855
-2.996
140
0
6
5
THE BAND PERRY/Done (Republic Nashville)
19167
374
6228
166
46.372
0.721
141
0
8
6
ZAC BROWN BAND/Jump Right In (Atlantic/Southern Ground) 4 16181
1437
5236
569
39.607
2.996
141
0
7
7
BRANTLEY GILBERT/More Than Miles (Valory)
812
4898
254
37.197
2.484
141
0
5
8
TIM MCGRAW w/TAYLOR SWIFT/Highway Don't Care (Big Machine)15236
-3866
4802
-1211 37.919
-7.417
141
0
9
9
KIP MOORE/Hey Pretty Girl (MCA)
15151
609
4788
224
36.605
1.471
141
0
10
10
HUNTER HAYES/I Want Crazy (Atlantic/WMN)
14901
848
4668
279
35.8
2.478
141
0
13
11
RANDY HOUSER/Runnin' Outta Moonlight (Stoney Creek)
13388
1243
4271
323
31.463
3.094
141
0
11
12
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/See You Again (19/Arista)
13369
924
4343
300
31.981
2.275
141
0
15
13
BRETT ELDREDGE/Don't Ya (Atlantic/WMN)
12991
1130
4108
357
30.587
2.61
141
0
14
14
EASTON CORBIN/All Over The Road (Mercury)
12875
961
4127
288
30.387
2.415
140
2
16
15
KEITH URBAN/Little Bit Of Everything (Capitol)
12047
882
3789
282
28.628
2.116
140
0
17
16
JUSTIN MOORE/Point At You (Valory)
10969
659
3617
225
25.443
1.636
140
0
18
17
GARY ALLAN/Pieces (MCA)
9401
804
3077
268
21.815
1.337
141
0
19
18
LADY ANTEBELLUM/Goodbye Town (Capitol)
9332
952
2987
327
22.192
1.826
136
2
21
19
TYLER FARR/Redneck Crazy (Columbia)
8554
968
2665
290
19.749
2.796
139
1
20
20
BILLY CURRINGTON/Hey Girl (Mercury)
8404
649
2624
221
19.793
1.006
130
5
24
21
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb)
7371
1577
2344
494
16.522
4.01
131
2
23
22
SHERYL CROW/Easy (Warner Bros./WMN)
6982
458
2155
151
15.392
1.449
136
3
29
23
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia) 4 6407
2213
2009
775
14.611
4.792
132
19
32
24
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville) 4
5902
2151
1891
699
12.374
4.202
127
25
25
25
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Blowin' Smoke (Mercury)
5827
566
1761
184
12.543
1.12
121
1
15561
Air bor ne indicates songs that have been added to 60% of the Countr y Aircheck/M ediabase repor ting panel.
4=Top
5 point gainers.
June 24, 2013
Chart Page 2
LW
TW
Artist/Title (Label)
Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS
26
26
CHARLIE WORSHAM/Could It Be (Warner Bros./W.A.R.)
5686
576
1778
144
13.093
2.116
126
4
27
27
CRAIG CAMPBELL/Outta My Head (Bigger Picture)
5239
488
1692
136
11.968
1.373
111
5
28
28
THOMAS RHETT/It Goes Like This (Valory)
5152
796
1623
209
11.178
2.734
117
5
30
29
CHRIS YOUNG/Aw Naw (RCA)
4476
459
1389
134
9.71
0.827
116
4
31
30
LITTLE BIG TOWN/Your Side Of The Bed (Capitol)
4263
454
1381
139
8.863
1.836
118
12
34
31
MAGGIE ROSE/Better (RPME)
3457
294
1126
99
7.366
0.439
101
4
38
32
JOE NICHOLS/Sunny And 75 (Red Bow)
3290
350
1036
98
7.276
1.599
102
6
33
33
JOEL CROUSE/If You Want Some (Show Dog-Universal)
3211
4
1065
12
5.349
-0.196
106
1
39
34
PARMALEE/Carolina (Stoney Creek)
2906
237
958
65
5.217
0.554
91
1
TOBY KEITH/Drinks After Work (Show Dog-Universal)
2604
-510
835
-140 5.861
-2.501
85
28
-136 3.679
-0.38
96
0
40
36
RACHEL FARLEY/Ain't Easy (Red Bow)
2266
-381
689
43
37
JON PARDI/Up All Night (Capitol)
2147
295
803
94
3.029
0.465
95
7
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow) Debut
2069
1163
637
383
4.522
2.518
90
51
3.123
-0.385
71
0
41
39
DRAKE WHITE/The Simple Life (MCA)
2064
-97
671
0
42
40
ERIC PASLAY/Friday Night (EMI Nashville)
2050
176
706
57
3.2
0.457
81
5
45
41
PHIL VASSAR/Love Is Alive (Rodeowave)
1915
109
640
30
2.896
0.059
71
4
CASSADEE POPE/Wasting All These Tears (Republic Nashville)
1805
699
517
174
2.968
1.379
64
11
Debut 42
44
43
CHRIS JANSON/Better I Don't (Bigger Picture)
1708
-135
603
-11
2.705
-0.267
69
0
46
44
SCOTTY MCCREERY/See You Tonight (19/Interscope/Mercury)
1595
35
549
17
2.925
-0.006
53
3
49
45
DIERKS BENTLEY/Bourbon In Kentucky (Capitol)
1551
358
507
150
2.673
0.302
66
7
47
46
JANA KRAMER/I Hope It Rains (Elektra Nashville/W.A.R.)
1418
153
437
48
2.114
0.155
55
0
48
47
CHRIS CAGLE/Dance Baby Dance (Bigger Picture)
1216
-22
395
-9
2.372
-0.096
47
3
Debut 48
DUSTIN LYNCH/Wild In Your Smile (Broken Bow)
1190
157
424
64
1.48
0.112
66
3
Debut 49
THOMPSON SQUARE/Everything I Shouldn't Be... (Stoney Creek)
1075
237
377
100
1.851
0.373
45
5
Debut 50
DAVID NAIL/Whatever She's Got (MCA)
1071
73
381
26
1.82
0.175
47
4
Air bor ne indicates songs that have been added to 60% of the Countr y Aircheck/M ediabase repor ting panel.
4=Top
5 point gainers.
June 24, 2013
Country Aircheck Add Leaders
Chart Page 3
Activator Top Point Gainers
Adds
TAYLOR SWIFT/Red (Big Machine)
68
TOBY KEITH/Drinks After Work (Show Dog-Universal)
914 4
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
51
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville)
854 4
MIRANDA LAMBERT/All Kinds Of Kinds (RCA)
38
ZAC BROWN BAND/Jump Right In (Atlantic/Southern Ground)
804 4
TOBY KEITH/Drinks After Work (Show Dog-Universal)
28
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
721 4
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville)
25
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb)
713 4
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
19
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
686
AARON LEWIS/Granddaddy's Gun (WMN/Blaster)
17
TYLER FARR/Redneck Crazy (Columbia)
585
ANDY GIBSON/Best Thing (Curb)
14
KEITH URBAN/Little Bit Of Everything (Capitol)
525
DAKOTA BRADLEY/Somethin' Like Somethin' (Streamsound)
12
KIP MOORE/Hey Pretty Girl (MCA)
504
LITTLE BIG TOWN/Your Side Of The Bed (Capitol)
12
BRANTLEY GILBERT/More Than Miles (Valory)
502
Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
2213
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville)
2151
JAKE OWEN/Anywhere With You (RCA)
1750
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb)
1577
ZAC BROWN BAND/Parking Lot Party (Atlantic/Southern Ground)
1437
RANDY HOUSER/Runnin' Outta Moonlight (Stoney Creek)
4
4
4
4
4
Activator Top Spin Gainers
TOBY KEITH/Drinks After Work (Show Dog-Universal)
216
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville)
195
ZAC BROWN BAND/Jump Right In (Atlantic/Southern Ground) 191
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb)
167
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
161
1243
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
156
BRAD PAISLEY/Beat This Summer (Arista)
1200
TYLER FARR/Redneck Crazy (Columbia)
142
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
1163
KEITH URBAN/Little Bit Of Everything (Capitol)
131
BRETT ELDREDGE/Don't Ya (Atlantic/WMN)
1130
BRETT ELDREDGE/Don't Ya (Atlantic/WMN)
112
KIP MOORE/Hey Pretty Girl (MCA)
109
TYLER FARR/Redneck Crazy (Columbia)
968
Country Aircheck Top Spin Gainers
Country Aircheck Top Recurrents
Points
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
775
DARIUS RUCKER/Wagon Wheel (Capitol)
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville)
699
LADY ANTEBELLUM/Downtown (Capitol)
9850
ZAC BROWN BAND/Parking Lot Party (Atlantic/Southern Ground)
569
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Get Your Shine On (Republic Nashville)
9582
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb)
494
MIRANDA LAMBERT/Mama's Broken Heart (RCA)
8870
JAKE OWEN/Anywhere With You (RCA)
489
BLAKE SHELTON/Sure Be Cool If You Did (Warner Bros./WMN)
6868
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
383
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Cruise (Republic Nashville)
6556
BRETT ELDREDGE/Don't Ya (Atlantic/WMN)
357
THOMPSON SQUARE/If I Didn't Have You (Stoney Creek)
5722
LADY ANTEBELLUM/Goodbye Town (Capitol)
327
ERIC CHURCH/Like Jesus Does (EMI Nashville)
5128
RANDY HOUSER/Runnin' Outta Moonlight (Stoney Creek)
323
CHRIS YOUNG/I Can Take It From There (RCA)
5024
BRAD PAISLEY/Beat This Summer (Arista)
304
TIM MCGRAW/One Of Those Nights (Big Machine)
4888
12752
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June 24, 2013
Country aircheck activity
DIERKS BENTLEY/Bourbon In Kentucky (Capitol)
Moves 49*-45*
1,551 points, 507 spins
7 adds: KEGA, KTTS, KWNR, WKML, WOGK,
WSOC*, WYRK
JANA KRAMER/I Hope It Rains (Elektra Nashville/W.A.R.)
Moves 47*-46*
1,418 points, 437 spins; No adds
CHRIS CAGLE/Dance Baby Dance (Bigger Picture)
Moves 48-47
1,216 points, 395 spins
3 adds: KFGY, WKMK, WPAW
DUSTIN LYNCH/Wild In Your Smile (Broken Bow)
Re-entry at 48*
1,190 points, 424 spins
3 adds: KNIX, WCOL, WUBL
Chart Page 4
ADD DATES
JULY 1
CHRIS STAPLETON/What Are You Listening To (Mercury)
ELI YOUNG BAND/Drunk Last Night (Republic Nashville)
Rachele Lynae/Fishing For Somethin’ (Momentum/New
Revolution)
JULY 8
Kelly Clarkson/Tie It Up (19/RCA/Columbia)
Downday/Back In The Day (Render)
JULY 15
Blackberry Smoke/Ain’t Much Left Of Me (Southern Ground)
VIDEO ADDS
CMT
THOMPSON SQUARE/Everything I Shouldn’t ... (Stoney Creek)
Re-entry at 49*
1,075 points, 377 spins
5 adds: KFRG*, KTTS, WDAF, WMZQ, WQIK
KID ROCK f/HANK WILLIAMS JR./Redneck Paradise
(Atlantic/Top Dog)
Luke Bryan/Crash My Party (Capitol)
DAVID NAIL/Whatever She’s Got (MCA)
Re-entry at 50*
1,071 points, 381 spins
4 adds: KAWO, WGNE, WSOC*, WSUN*
Joel Crouse/If You Want Some (Show Dog-Universal)
KID ROCK f/HANK WILLIAMS JR./Redneck Paradise
(Atlantic/Top Dog)
Luke Bryan/Crash My Party (Capitol)
KELLIE PICKLER/Someone Somewhere Tonight (Black River)
1,017 points, 375 spins
2 adds: WBUL, WPOC
KATIE ARMIGER/Playin’ With Fire (Cold River)
927 points, 341 spins; No adds
TAYLOR SWIFT/Red (Big Machine)
833 points, 225 spins
Adds include: KAJA, KASE, KAWO, KCCY, KCYE, KEEY,
KHEY, KHGE, KJKE, KKIX
LOVE AND THEFT/If You Ever Get Lonely (RCA)
810 points, 268 spins
4 adds: KEGA, KTEX, WDAF, WWYZ
CMT PURE
GAC
Luke Bryan/Crash My Party (Capitol)
Joel Crouse/If You Want Some (Show Dog-Universal)
Gwen Sebastian/Suitcase (Flying Island)
ZUUS Country (prev. The Country Network)
Uncle Kracker/Blue Skies (Sugar Hill/RPME)
Aircheck Activity includes the songs that rank 45-50 on this week’s chart or are
those that are not charted and have a minimum of 800 airplay points and have
shown growth in two of the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds)
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Chart Page 5
LW
TW
Artist/Title (Label)
2
1
BRAD PAISLEY/Beat This Summer (Arista)
9284
Points +/- Points
368
Plays
2176
+/- Plays
80
Stations Adds
51
0
3
2
JAKE OWEN/Anywhere With You (RCA)
8808
-79
2070
-5
51
0
4
3
LUKE BRYAN/Crash My Party (Capitol)
8794
400
2092
93
52
0
5
4
THE BAND PERRY/Done (Republic Nashville)
8433
342
2008
68
51
0
1
5
BLAKE SHELTON/Boys 'Round Here (Warner Bros./WMN)
8014
-1306
1848
-334
49
0
7
6
ZAC BROWN BAND/Jump Right In (Atlantic/Southern Ground) 4
7348
804
1738
191
52
0
9
7
KIP MOORE/Hey Pretty Girl (MCA)
6907
504
1656
109
52
0
10
8
BRANTLEY GILBERT/More Than Miles (Valory)
6503
502
1504
104
48
0
11
9
HUNTER HAYES/I Want Crazy (Atlantic/WMN)
6277
369
1488
69
51
0
12
10
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/See You Again (19/Arista)
6034
306
1422
82
52
0
14
11
EASTON CORBIN/All Over The Road (Mercury)
5838
342
1385
94
51
0
6
12
TIM MCGRAW w/TAYLOR SWIFT/Highway Don't Care (Big Machine)
5826
-1555
1312
-355
45
0
13
13
RANDY HOUSER/Runnin' Outta Moonlight (Stoney Creek)
5825
303
1410
92
52
0
16
14
KEITH URBAN/Little Bit Of Everything (Capitol)
5562
525
1349
131
53
0
17
15
BRETT ELDREDGE/Don't Ya (Atlantic/WMN)
5213
412
1239
112
50
1
15
16
JUSTIN MOORE/Point At You (Valory)
5190
73
1232
26
52
0
18
17
LADY ANTEBELLUM/Goodbye Town (Capitol)
4576
342
1115
74
53
1
19
18
GARY ALLAN/Pieces (MCA)
4184
301
988
57
49
1
20
19
LEE BRICE/Parking Lot Party (Curb) 4
3889
713
955
167
52
0
23
20
TYLER FARR/Redneck Crazy (Columbia)
3405
585
827
142
50
1
22
21
BILLY CURRINGTON/Hey Girl (Mercury)
3261
318
742
69
45
2
27
22
KENNY CHESNEY/When I See This Bar (Blue Chair/Columbia)
2966
686
726
161
50
2
30
23
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Round Here (Republic Nashville) 4
2787
854
695
195
51
2
24
24
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Blowin' Smoke (Mercury)
2726
186
651
42
48
0
25
25
LITTLE BIG TOWN/Your Side Of The Bed (Capitol)
2629
109
646
26
47
0
26
26
SHERYL CROW/Easy (Warner Bros./WMN)
2443
156
575
32
43
1
28
27
CHRIS YOUNG/Aw Naw (RCA)
2282
203
529
47
49
0
29
28
THOMAS RHETT/It Goes Like This (Valory)
2116
40
481
0
47
1
36
29
TOBY KEITH/Drinks After Work (Show Dog-Universal) 4
1912
914
466
216
42
7
32
30
1769
73
386
27
37
0
CHARLIE WORSHAM/Could It Be (Warner Bros./W.A.R.)
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Chart Page 6
LW
TW
Artist/Title (Label)
Points
+/- Points
Plays
38
31
JASON ALDEAN/Night Train (Broken Bow)
1557
721
389
+/- Plays
156
Stations Adds
38
8
35
32
CRAIG CAMPBELL/Outta My Head (Bigger Picture)
1394
126
319
31
35
1
34
33
JOE NICHOLS/Sunny And 75 (Red Bow)
1370
91
326
23
31
0
33
34
JOEL CROUSE/If You Want Some (Show Dog-Universal)
1236
-46
328
-1
26
0
39
35
DIERKS BENTLEY/Bourbon In Kentucky (Capitol)
1058
234
285
52
27
4
37
36
JON PARDI/Up All Night (Capitol)
857
17
219
11
21
1
42
37
MAGGIE ROSE/Better (RPME)
791
130
165
17
21
0
40
38
PHIL VASSAR/Love Is Alive (Rodeowave)
733
21
188
6
19
0
54
39
MIRANDA LAMBERT/All Kinds Of Kinds (RCA)
725
448
185
101
22
6
41
40
DRAKE WHITE/The Simple Life (MCA)
697
27
185
10
22
1
44
41
ERIC PASLAY/Friday Night (EMI Nashville)
682
110
207
36
17
1
43
42
SCOTTY MCCREERY/See You Tonight (19/Interscope/Mercury)
593
-5
119
2
18
1
46
43
MORGAN FRAZIER/Yellow Brick Road (Sidewalk)
414
15
110
4
11
0
48
44
CASSADEE POPE/Wasting All These Tears (Republic Nashville)
403
68
95
19
13
2
52
45
KELLIE PICKLER/Someone Somewhere Tonight (Black River)
354
71
118
24
14
0
51
46
PARMALEE/Carolina (Stoney Creek)
343
57
114
25
15
0
49
47
CHRIS JANSON/Better I Don't (Bigger Picture)
339
20
87
0
12
0
50
48
TRACE ADKINS f/COLBIE CAILLAT/Watch The World End (Show Dog-Universal)
329
27
103
9
12
0
56
49
DAKOTA BRADLEY/Somethin' Like Somethin' (Streamsound)
328
66
68
28
10
0
47
50
KIX BROOKS/There's The Sun (Arista)
315
-38
75
-9
6
0
59
51
ELI YOUNG BAND/Drunk Last Night (Republic Nashville)
311
115
67
23
8
3
55
52
LOCASH COWBOYS/Chase A Little Love (Average Joes)
281
10
79
7
8
0
53
53
RACHEL FARLEY/Ain't Easy (Red Bow)
250
-33
77
-4
15
0
58
54
DAVID NAIL/Whatever She's Got (MCA)
230
-22
46
-7
10
0
57
55
DUSTIN LYNCH/Wild In Your Smile (Broken Bow)
209
-50
44
-14
4
0
Debut 56
TAYLOR SWIFT/Red (Big Machine)
202
106
49
18
11
3
Debut 57
THOMPSON SQUARE/Everything I Shouldn't Be... (Stoney Creek)
192
7
44
-1
5
1
RANDY ROGERS BAND/Fuzzy (MCA)
184
-11
60
-4
12
0
Debut 59
LOVE AND THEFT/If You Ever Get Lonely (RCA)
181
47
45
16
5
1
Debut 60
BLAKE SHELTON/Mine Would Be You (Warner Bros./WMN)
158
131
45
38
8
4
60
58
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